WLAE-TV

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WLAE-TV
Image:Wlae2007.gif
New Orleans, Louisiana
Branding LAE
Slogan WLAE-TV 32, we're Your PBS station in the nation!
Channels Analog: 32 (UHF)

Digital: 31 (UHF)
Affiliations PBS
V-me (DT2)
Create (DT3)
Owner Educational Broadcasting Foundation, Inc.
(Willwoods Community 50%/
Louisiana Educational Television Authority 50%)
First air date July 8, 1984
Call letters’ meaning LouisianA Educational Television
Transmitter Power 2290 kW (analog)
117 kW (digital)
Height 308 m (analog)
274 m (digital)
Facility ID 18819
Transmitter Coordinates 29°58′58.1″N, 89°57′9″W
Website www.pbs.org/wlae

WLAE-TV is a PBS member station in New Orleans, Louisiana, broadcasting locally on channel 32. The station is one of two PBS stations serving the market; WYES-TV is the other. It is owned by the Educational Broadcasting Foundation, a partnership between the Willwoods Community (a Catholic-related organization), and the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (operators of Louisiana Public Broadcasting, the PBS member for the rest of Louisiana).

In 1978, a group of married couples, supported by the Catholic Church, formed the Willwoods Community. They joined forces with the Louisiana Educational Television Authority to obtain the other noncommercial license for New Orleans. On December 14, 1981, under the banner of the Educational Broadcasting Foundation, the community obtained an educational broadcast license. Finally, in July of 1984, WLAE-TV signed on as a PBS member station.

In addition to offering PBS programming, WLAE also airs local educational programming, as well as some programming from Louisiana Public Broadcasting (mostly news and public affairs). WLAE is also one of very few PBS stations to show a daily Catholic Mass, live from St. Louis Cathedral.

WLAE is one of at least two PBS members owned at least in part by a Catholic-related organization (WXEL-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida is the other), and one of at least three run by a religious organization in general (counting Provo, Utah's KBYU-TV).

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[edit] Hurricane Katrina

Following Hurricane Katrina, WLAE sustained damage to their transmitter and they remained off the air to terrestrial viewers until early 2007.

During the time their transmitter was off the air, WLAE provided a direct feed to local cable systems and to DirecTV

Their analog signal was restored in January 2007 and their digital signal debuted on the air (for the first time) in March 2007.

[edit] Network Affiliations

WLAE carries a mix of their own locally produced programming, religious programming from various sources, and PBS programming on their analog signal and on their digital channel 32-1.

WLAE carries V-me on 32-2 and Create on 32-3 using the LPB 3 feed.

[edit] Previous logo

WLAE "32-LAE" logo used through late-2006, at earliest.

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Broadcast television in the New Orleans market  (Nielsen DMA #53)
See also: Broadcast television stations in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi Markets
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PBS Member Stations in the state of Louisiana

LPB:
KLTM 13 (Monroe) - KLTL 18 (Lake Charles) - KLPB 24 (Lafayette) - KLTS 24 (Shreveport) - KLPA 25 (Alexandria) - WLPB 27 (Baton Rouge)
Other (both in New Orleans):
WYES 12 - WLAE 32
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, and Other Stations in Louisiana